The citation advantage of author-pays model: the case of Springer and Elsevier OA journals

Scientometrics

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 581-608

  Sotudeh, Hajar ^a   Ghasempour, Zahra ^a   Yaghtin, Maryam ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

APC; Article processing charge; Author pays model; Citation; Elsevier; Open access; Springer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937628115     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1607-5     Document Type: Article

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